Notices by farmer aby (aby@aus.social), page 3

Derek Chauvin has been stabbed in prison.

It's hard to stay an atheist when god is so good!

#FuckRacism #FuckThePolice

tbh i feel like the "if you stay on twitter you're letting nazis happen" discourse is sort of like telling me that im letting nazis happen bc I use the same supermarket.

im just trying to survive and buy some broccoli, my guy.

(it's also not lost on me that i most often see these posts by white cis men.. you know, the type of people who can find a home on mastodon pretty fucking easily..)

#twitter #x #nazis #LetPeopleFindCommunity

#Radicalisation #Violence #extremism #terrorism #Islamophobia

She's back.

#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #KittensOfMastodon #caturday

@Lunaphied - I was non-monogamous in the before times.. when we used pen and paper because we had nothing else..
*takes drag on cigarette*
..those were dark days, man.

Dark days..

WE HAD NOTHING ELSE IT WASN'T OUR FAULT

What's a subtoot?

This guy messaged me for a hook-up.

I asked what he's into, and he said "what do ya mean".

I asked if he's married, and he said "no obviously"

I asked if he was straight or bi, and he said he was "obviously straight"

So I asked why that would be obvious, he said "because I'm a guy and I like women"

I pointed out that bi men are men who like women, and he said "I don't suck on dicks I suck on nipples"

Does he think men don't have nipples? Does he look at his own chest and wonder when those two weird pimples will go away?

#queer #trans #anarchism #RA #dating #relationship #kink #bdsm #Ds #Dominant #submissive

He is taking a course on Marxist ideology.
He says, “The only real solution is to smash the system and start again.”
His thumb is caressing the most bourgeois copy of the communist manifesto that I have ever seen,
He bought it at Barnes and Noble for twenty-nine U.S. American dollars and ninety-nine cents,
Its hard cover shows a dark man with a scarved face
Waving a gigantic red flag against a fictional smoky background.
The matte finish is fucking gorgeous.
He wants to be congratulated for paying Harvard sixty thousand dollars
To teach him that the system is unfair.
He pulls his iPhone from his imported Marino wool jacket, and leaves.

What people can’t possibly tell from the footage on TV
Is that the water cannon feels like getting whipped with a burning switch.
Where I come from, they fill it with sewer water and hope that they get you in the face with your mouth open
So that the hepatitis will keep you in bed for the next protest.
What you can’t tell from Harvard square,
Is that when the tear gas bursts from nowhere to everywhere all at once,
It scrapes your insides like barbed wire, sawing at your lungs.
Tear gas is such a benign term for it,
If you have never breathed it in you would think it was a nostalgic experience.
What you can’t learn at Barnes and Noble,
Is that when they rush you, survival is to run,
I am never as fast as when the police are chasing me.
I know what happens to women in the holding cells down there and yet…
We still do it.

I inherited my communist manifesto,
It has no cover—
Because my mother ripped it off when she hid it in the dust jacket of “Don Quixote”
The day before the soldiers destroyed her apartment,
Looking for subversive propaganda.
She burned the cover, could not bring herself to burn the pages,
Hoped to God the soldiers couldn’t read,
They never found it.
So she was not killed for it, but her body bore the scars of the torture chamber,
For wanting her children to have a better life than she did,
Don’t talk to me about revolution.

I know what the price of smashing the system really is, my people already tried that.
The price of uprise is paid in blood,
And not Harvard blood.
The blood that ran through the streets of Santiago,
The blood thrown alive from Argentine helicopters into the Atlantic.

It is easy to say “revolution” from the comfort of a New England library.

It is easy to offer flesh to the cause,
When it is not yours to give.

— Catalina Ferro, “Manifesto”

#Communist #Socialist #anarchism #revolution #SomeOfYouHereReallyNeedToThinkOnThis

Holy.
Shit.

Bassem Youssef taking Piers Morgan to task is just.. I have no words.

It's here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4idQbwsvtUo

I don't know what the cc are like - the video has auto-generate captions - and I don't have the ability to transcribe a 30 mins video, sorry.

“white Australia doesn’t want to give blackfellas anything, even when it’s nothing”

- Melissa Lucashenko

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

This is going to be unpopular.

I keep seeing people say they're shocked how anti-Indigenous Australia is, and when I go look at their profiles they all have "leftist" written.

You all need to understand what this means for how your leftism is tied in to white supremacy.

If you're shocked to find out that a colonised country is racist, you haven't been listening.

If your leftist selves haven't been listening to Indigenous people on this Stolen Land, you're leaning into white supremacy.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

Because a lot of you are new to this conversation, here are some tips about grammar.

- Cap the first letters of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Island, and Indigenous.

- Always type out "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island", don't use ATSI.

- Don't use phrasing like "you people" or "those people" to refer to us.

- If you're talking about a specific Aboriginal group, use the name instead of just "Aboriginal people", because our cultures are not monolithic.

You might see this as just grammar, but it's about respect.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #TimeForTreaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

I'm a disabled Indigenous queer person who exists on Jobseeker, which means almost 50% ($269/week) below the poverty line ($489/week).

After living in the same house for almost 10 years, I recently had to move as the new landlords decided to renovate so they could increase the rent.

Moving has cost me over $4000, and ended up putting me almost $2500 in debt.

I didn't get rent assistance for the first 6 weeks of living here because they lost my lease copy and they're refusing to backpay it. So I started the first 6 weeks here adding over $180 a fortnight to that debt as well.

I'm in a new house with a new landlord, and am barely able to make rent at the moment, let alone cover bills and food.

I hate asking, but please consider helping if you can - I'd be super grateful.

https://www.paypal.me/kittensmeow

https://ko-fi.com/abydarling

#MutualAid #Indigenous #Aboriginal #IndigenousMutualAid #queer #trans #autism #audhd #disability #JobSeeker #PleaseShare #Help #BegPost #PleaseHelp #SettlerSaturday #SettlerSunday

“I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love within the context of community.” — bell hooks

#CommunityNotCops

#philosophy #Foucault #School #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #TreatyBeforeVoice #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

I'm a disabled Indigenous queer person who exists on Jobseeker, which means almost 50% ($269/week) below the poverty line ($489/week).

After living in the same house for almost 10 years, I recently had to move as the new landlords decided to renovate so they could increase the rent.

Moving has cost me over $4000, and ended up putting me almost $2500 in debt.

I didn't get rent assistance for the first 6 weeks of living here because they lost my lease copy and they're refusing to backpay it. So I started the first 6 weeks here adding over $180 a fortnight to that debt as well.

I'm in a new house with a new landlord, and am barely able to make rent at the moment, let alone cover bills and food.

I hate asking, but please consider helping if you can - I'd be super grateful.

https://www.paypal.me/kittensmeow

https://ko-fi.com/abydarling

#MutualAid #Indigenous #Aboriginal #IndigenousMutualAid #queer #trans #autism #audhd #disability #JobSeeker #PleaseShare #Help #BegPost #PleaseHelp #SettlerSaturday #SettlerSunday

I keep seeing mods and admin in social media groups post, starting off with saying 'speaking as a person and not a mod..' or 'speaking without my mod hat on..' etc.

It highlights to me that they don't understand how power works. Once you take a role with authority over others, you can't effectively speak to those others outside of that role.

Power isn't a coat you can just pop on and off when it suits you - in fact, the (attempted) 'popping on and off' of that is actually an exercising of that power.

I wish we had a more nuanced and in-depth analysis of power structures behind social media groups and mod/admin status.

The left really does love a good ol' cult of celebrity 😕

Look at this chicken.
🐓

It's giant. It's bigger than a car!
🐓🚗

It's getting bigger!
🐓🏡

The horror. The horror.
🐓🗼

god help us all..
🐓🌏